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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:35:17 -0500
To: Martin Jangowski <bsd@birdland.rhein-neckar.de>
From: "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com>
Subject: Re: Symbios 875 activity LED?
Cc: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
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At 02:38 PM 1/18/99 +0100, Martin Jangowski wrote:
>On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Stefan Esser wrote:
>
>> It is simple to positively detect the Tekram SCSI cards, and I 
>> know those don't follow the SDMS convention (and because of 
>> Tekram's policy to support free operating systems, we even know
>> exactly how to make best use of their cards!).
>
>Does it make sense to use Tekrams's FBSD-driver or is it better to use the
>generic ncr0 driver supplied with FBSD? The generic driver works
>flawlessly, one of my machines with 3.0-RELEASE and a Tekram DC-390F runs
>nonstop since 3.0 came out... 

I think the Tekram driver is based on a different chip than the ncr0 driver
runs on.  For the Tekram DC390F use the ncr driver. 
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